Mark Wright

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Salford City
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486 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

19 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad19 Nov 2035

Salford City are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout19 Nov 2035

The manager makes an example of Gerrard Buabo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market19 Nov 2035

The Devonte Ferguson question follows Salford City around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Devonte Ferguson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout19 Nov 2035

Mark Wright gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mark Wright is on it.

Market19 Nov 2035

Salford City and Stephen Hawkins are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout19 Nov 2035

Alexander Harris asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad19 Nov 2035

Ivano Matas still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Salford City would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Market19 Nov 2035

Still no signature from Teguh Trisnanda

2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Salford City could get for him.

Boardroom19 Nov 2035

The Salford City production line keeps running

86 graduates out of an academy now rated 7 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

In brief

Back issues
478 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

24 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match19 Sep 2035

Cup progress for Salford City

A 1‑0 win over Wrexham, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings24 Sep 2035

Mark Wright, 18, steals the show — 7.80

Marked 7.80 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match22 Sep 2035

Salford City cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad24 Sep 2035

A row about effort at Salford City

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jonny Scriven was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces24 Sep 2035

One of their own: Mark Wright

He is 18 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match22 Sep 2035

Sam Alker sends Salford City past Northampton Town

It finished 1‑0, and it was Sam Alker’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Salford City.

Squad24 Sep 2035

The decline has begun for Fabian Østigård Ness

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Salford City is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Squad24 Sep 2035

A falling-out at Salford City

Alexander Harris and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings24 Sep 2035

The afternoon belonged to Sam Alker

A mark of 7.61, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

419 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

7 Aug 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Aug 2034

21 days out for Alec Van Hoorenbeeck after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Salford City will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market7 Aug 2034

Eyes on Finley Taylor again

The phone has started ringing about Finley Taylor again, and this time the name on the line is Mansfield Town. Salford City are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets7 Aug 2034

Salford City rebuffed over Brandon Márquez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aston Villa have kept their man, and Salford City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets7 Aug 2034

Edward Robinson is a medical away from Salford City

The deal with Huddersfield Town is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad7 Aug 2034

Kieran Graham falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad7 Aug 2034

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Mark Wright

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Salford City will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad7 Aug 2034

Alec Van Hoorenbeeck in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Salford City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout7 Aug 2034

Lassi Lappalainen gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market7 Aug 2034

Still no ink between Salford City and Tobi Akapo

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Salford City, another week without a signature from Tobi Akapo.

In brief